CCS is aware of our responsibilities towards service users, employees, agency staff, and the local community and expect all suppliers to us to adhere to the same ethical principles. We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Our internal policies replicate our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships.

These include: 

1. Recruitment policy.

We operate a robust recruitment policy, including conducting eligibility to work in the UK checks for all directly employed staff, and agencies on approved frameworks are audited to provide assurance that pre-employment clearance has been obtained for agency staff, to safeguard against human trafficking or individuals being forced to work against their will 

2. Equal Opportunities.

We have a range of controls to protect staff from poor treatment and/or exploitation, which comply with all respective laws and regulations. These include provision of fair pay rates, fair terms and conditions of employment, and access to training and development opportunities 

3. Safeguarding policies.

We adhere to the principles inherent within both our safeguarding children and adults policies. Our employees are clear on how to raise safeguarding concerns about how colleagues or people receiving our services are being treated, or about practices within our business or supply chain. 

4. Whistleblowing policy.

We operate a whistleblowing policy so that all employees know that they can raise concerns about how colleagues or people receiving our services are being treated, or about practices within our business or supply chain, without fear of reprisals 

5. Code of Conduct.

This code explains the manner in which we behave as an organisation and how we expect our employees and suppliers to act. 

Our approach to procurement and our supply chain includes: 

• Ensuring that our suppliers are carefully selected through our robust supplier selection criteria/processes
• Requiring that the main contractor provides details of its sub-contractor(s) to enable us to check their credentials
• Randomly request that the main contractor provide details of its supply chain
• Ensuring invitation to tender documents contain a clause on human rights issues
• Ensuring invitation to tender documents also contains clauses giving CCS the right to terminate a contract for failure to comply with labour laws

CCS staff must contact and work with the Procurement department when looking to work with new suppliers so appropriate checks can be undertaken. Supplier adherence to our values. We are zero tolerant to slavery and human trafficking and thereby expect all our direct and indirect suppliers/contractors to follow suit. Where it is verified that a subcontractor has breached the child labour laws or human trafficking, then this subcontractor will be excluded in accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. CCS will require that the main contractor substitute a new subcontractor.